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Jean-Denis Greze

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Jean-Denis Greze has been a guest on The Engineering Leadership Podcast (2 times) , Platformer , Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers , a16z Podcast and The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch .

Recently: “What Happens When Al Agents Can Spend Your Money?” on a16z Podcast (October 2026); “Town's CEO on the self-organizing company” on Platformer (August 2026); “20VC: Why Hiring in Tech is Broken and Founders Need to be as Good at Firing as they are Hiring, Why Product Differentiation is Unsustainable & Why the Current Generation of Tech Employees are Entitled and What Needs to Change with Jean-Denis Greze @ Plai” on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (July 2023); “Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #18” on The Engineering Leadership Podcast (July 2020); “Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 1), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #17” on The Engineering Leadership Podcast (July 2020); “SE-Radio Episode 359: Engineering Maturity with Jean-Denis Greze” on Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (March 2019).

What They Said

“Supply aggregation is a lot less valuable. It used to be very valuable because human attention was limited. And now supply aggregation is a lot less valuable because human attention can be automated away.” — Jean-Denis Greze, a16z Podcast

Jean-Denis Greze closing a discussion with a16z's Alex Rampell about what happens to marketplaces and retail giants when AI agents do the shopping. Rampell had framed the question as whether platforms treat agents as adversaries or partners.

a16z Podcast · 2026-10-19 Permalink → Listen →
a16z Podcast Around 58:45 into the episode
Jean-Denis Greze

we're all going to abuse all of our chase and MX benefits and then it's not cost effective. Because

Alex Rampell

then it's going to be adversarial. This is kind of the adversarial versus synergistic thing. So

Jean-Denis Greze

by the way, the through line all those is I just think supply aggregation is a lot less valuable. It used to be very valuable because human attention was limited. And now supply aggregation is a lot less valuable because human attention can be automated away.

Alex Rampell

Yeah. This has been an awesome conversation. Thank you again for coming in today and go town. Yeah.

Jean-Denis Greze

Thanks so much, Alex. It's always great to join.

Alex Rampell

Thank you.

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